Portobello Blues with magnificent musician Adam Blake on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/ On the corner of Portobello Market and Elgin Road, you’ll find Adam Blake busking Blues of every kind. The works of Blind Willie Johnson and Lightnin’ Hopkins are revived through Adam’s excellent voice and intricate guitar moves, transforming this trendy part of West London into some kind of Mississippi delta. He’s also collaborated with amazing peers like Natacha Atlas, Errol Linton, and Cornershop, enhancing their live sets & album recordings with a brimful of fret styles, on bass & sitar. On Facebook, Adam is a sensitive, thoughtful character that’s modest about his career history, and dazzling ability. But in our studio on A World in london, there was no place to hide his true & bountiful talents. Listen in for some fingerpickin’ good, and reach out to grab Adam’s ‘Portobello Blues’ album here: https://www.facebook.com/adam.blake.3192ARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKKan Beng Mama Gambia/Libya/Algeria/Israel/UKJorge Drexler El Surco SpainAdam Blake Chop Suey UKCornershop Free Love UKAdam Blake Corrina Corrina UK‘ ‘ Ain’t Gonna Wag My Tail No MoreErrol Linton Band J’Y’s UKAdam Blake Boogie In ‘F’ UK11/10/17 – AWIL at Res 139 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling & sketches by Alban Low. Also this week a bonanza of global music at SOAS Radio. Next week Pete Lockett at SOAS & DJ Vix at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio

Mixmaster DJ Vix on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/ All turntablists working with Bhangra music will have productions by DJ Vix in their library. He’s the most sought-after remixer on the British-Asian scene – the Desi equivalent of David Guetta - and has added essential beats & breaks to songs by vocal giants like Jay Sean, Sukshinder Shinda, and Jassi Sidhu. Vix is often out with his Dhol n Bass Roadshow, but I found him recently when we were both brought in to spin an ‘old skool’ set for the BBC Asian Network. On this AWIL catch Vix in the mix, live on the CDJs, and hear about his rise to fame from East London roots to international stardom! Find out more at www.djvix.uk.comARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKAdam Blake Boogie In ‘F’ UKPete Lockett & Joji Hirota Pageant II UK/JapanDJ Vix/Malkit Singh Desi Beat UK/IndiaDJ Vix/Miss Pooja Gidha Pao ‘ ‘DJ Vix/Kumar Sanu Har Pal ‘ ‘DJ Vix in the mix: House of Pain – ‘Jump Around’, Jags Klimax – ‘Heer’, Neha Kakkar/Amar Arshi – ‘Kala Chasma’, Fatman Scoop – ‘Be Faithful’, Panjabi MC – ‘Mundian To Bachke’..18/10/17 – AWIL at Res 140 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling & sketches by Alban Low. Also this week a Pete Lockett at SOAS Radio. Next week Addictive TV at SOAS & Cleveland Watkiss at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio

Audio-visual sound-scapers and producers Addictive TV on this A World in London! Click here: https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/awil ... ictive-tv/ Globetrotting duo Graham Daniels & Mark Vidler have been cutting & pasting clips from films & TV into miraculous new tracks and montages of sound for over 10 years. As ‘Addictive TV’ their talents are in demand across the world taking them to huge stages at major festivals like Sfinks, WOMAD and Musicport. Their new album – ‘Orchestra of Samples’ – sees the duo evolving further into an exploration of creative goodies from musicians all over planet Earth that they recorded, resulting in some of the best multi-cult dance music you’ll ever hear. ‘Orchestra of Samples’ is out now on CD, download, streaming and a brilliant double vinyl limited edition packed with pics, facts, and profiles. This is a must for my club record box and quite simply addictive listening! Their next set of live shows are coming up in Paris but if you can’t get there then catch them on this AWIL! http://www.orchestraofsamples.com

Ubiquitous musical treasure & vocal warrior, Cleveland Watkiss on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/We caught up with Cleveland between some Sound Spas and his forthcoming date at The Vortex on Nov 6th as part of this year’s London International Arts Festival. Ever-evolving, it’s impossible to confine him to one genre, one era, or one skill, but suffice to say that the man that’s won the best vocalist Parliamentary Jazz Award 2017 is our man in the studio. A MOBO might be on its way too, and not before time. On this show you’ll get some sense of the journeys Cleveland has travelled in rhyme, as a virtuoso vocalist, composer, music educator, and actor. His early days in the 80’s with Lovers Rock queen Carroll Thompson, and The Jazz Warriors, followed by the heady 90’s drum n’ bass scene with Goldie & the Metalheadz crew in Hoxton’s Blue Note. There’s been collaborations with first-gen African greats like Sona Jobarteh, Tunde Jegede, and Kasse Mady too, but the collaborator list is endless and giant-filled so check the who’s who at www.clevelandwatkiss.co.uk Watch out for his new project Collective X, whose debut album cover has been designed by AWIL resident artist Alban Low. Our first live session with Cleveland on this AWIL left us with a lot of unfinished business, but rest assured that this conversation is to be resumed...ARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKPete Lockett & Russ Miller Rhythmic Conversation UK/JapanDJ Vix/Miss Pooja Gidha Pao UK/IndiaAddictive TV Eastern Baschet UKCleveland Watkiss Tour De Force (live) UK/JamaicaCleveland Watkiss/Kasse Mady One of A Kind ‘ ‘/Mali‘ ‘ drum n bass beatbox (live) ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Open Eyes ‘ ‘25/10/17 – AWIL at Res 141 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... ober-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling & sketches by Alban Low. Also this week a Addictive TV at SOAS Radio. Next week Sheila Chandra at SOAS & Tse Tse Fly Middle East at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio

Iconic creative visionary Sheila Chandra on this A World in London! Click here: https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/awil ... a-chandra/Interviews with Sheila Chandra are a rarity, so we were absolutely blessed to savour her eloquence and wisdom at AWIL. With a career that spans 35 years as a pop star, global music pioneer, songwriter and innovator, we met Sheila in her current incarnation of author. Her new book ‘Organising for Creative People’ has filled a huge gap in the market − outlining how to set up the essential infrastructure any creative professional needs to thrive in their career − and recently topped the Foyles non-fiction chart. She is the perfect mentor, qualified as someone who knows the challenges and rewards of life in the creative lane first hand, in an industry that has changed beyond recognition across four decades. Sheila began her long career in the arts as a child actress in the popular, but then controversial, after-school BBC TV series Grange Hill. But her ambition to become a singer took her into heady pop chart history worldwide, fronting the Indian fusion band Monsoon, and that glorious ground-breaking Top Ten hit ‘Ever So Lonely’ in 1982. She immediately became a role-model and flag-bearer for every South Asian kid that saw no reflection of themselves in the mainstream. As a solo artist, Sheila went on to produce six ground-breaking vocal orientated albums on the tiny Indipop label and a best-selling trio of minimalist solo voice and drone albums for Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, exploring the gateways between vocal techniques between vocal cultures from all over the world, and fusing them effortlessly in a single melodic phrase. She thrilled ‘live’ audiences as a lone figure seated quietly onstage while she explored the boundaries of what was possible with the voice.As one of the few, and certainly the earliest of Asian artists to achieve mainstream success, Sheila became a brown stamp in a white world. A teenager when she made her song-writing debut (on her second solo album Quiet, comprised of 10 lyric-less tracks which explored the voice as an instrument) this elegantly sari-clad woman was an impossible-to-ignore, unconventional and un-stereotypical non-white presence in music. Defying expectations of what it meant to be young, female and Asian, without ever setting out to shock, she says that the most common phrase she heard at this stage of her career was an astonished ‘You can’t do that!’ The sheer artistry of her work forced audiences to move beyond their old connotations of music from the subcontinent as merely ‘exotic’, the soundtrack of the sixties, or the musical equivalent of ‘Fair Trade’ craft goods. Her music was unmistakably fine art. And behind this was a steely determination. Her pioneering work only became possible because she eschewed the mainstream record company route, managed herself, and cashed in her fame in exchange for musical freedom. It was when Real World were putting out the ‘Moonsung’ retrospective of her work that I first interviewed Sheila, in 1999, and I remember feeling that I was in the presence of the most powerful woman I had ever met. Someone who knew exactly what she was doing, and why. She was filled with a sense of purpose, dedication, and complete clarity about her musical mission. Since then, she’s proved that adaptation and fluidity is eminently possible, and that skills can be transposed from one field to another, consistently finding a new voice. In Sheila’s case that voice is pure, crystal clear, and permanently relevant, be it on vinyl or paper –listen to it on this un-missable AWIL!ARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota Chikyu Japan/UKBaba Ilunga Wa Ilunga Nakoomba KenyaAddictive TV Eastern Baschet UKCleveland Watkiss Jazz Interval UK/JamaicaPete Lockett + Russ Miller Rhythm-sphere UKSheila Chandra Ever So Lonley (1982) UK/India‘ ‘ Lament of McCrimmon ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices‘ ‘ Ever So Lonely/Eyes/Ocean (1992)AWIL Goin’ Global Gigs Guide: Oct 24 – Nov 11 Vamos Cuba! @ Peacock Theatre, Nov 6 Cleveland Watkiss @ Vortex, Nov 7 & 9 Martin Alvarado @ The Pheasantry, Nov 11 Arun Ghosh, Lokhi Terra, Soothsayers @ Rich Mix, Nov 12 On Mass incl. Angelique Kidjo @ Roundhouse, Nov 12 Rebetiko Carnival Big Band Bash Fundraiser with Marina Deligianni, Dunja Botic, Cigdem Aslan @ Theatro Technis, Nov 18 Gypsy Kings @ RFH ...more at www.djritu.com1/11/17 AWIL 239 #AWorldInLondon is podcast on #Itunes & #Mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/playl ... in-london/ A World In London – in its ELEVENTH year! Live on Wednesdays, 4pm, from SOAS Radio: mixlr.com/soasradio and AWIL/CC at Resonance 104.4fm at 6.30pm, repeat Monday 8am, online, DAB & on Resonance Extra 5pm Wednesdays. Join us on Twitter @aworldinlondon This week Tse Tse Fly Middle East at Resonance, click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/ Next week Martin Alvarado @ SOAS and Namvula at Resonance. www.djritu.comhttps://www.facebook.com/DjRitu Twitter:@djritu1 @aworldinlondon

Gifted song-sculptress Namvula on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/When we first met Namvula Rennie four years ago on AWIL she was beginning a musical voyage of discovery & passion that would reap critical acclaim for her debut album, ‘Shiwezwa’. This week we witnessed an artist who has spread her wings and emerged stronger and butterfly beautiful. For a second generation Zambian that couldn’t speak her grandmother’s native tongue Namvula has matured into an ambassador for language and philosophy from this relatively uncharted quarter of Africa, and she encompasses her Scottish roots and London life into an eloquent sequence of storytelling. Namvula is our very own Joni Mitchell, without the protest but with sensitivity, adding light, deft touches to her lyrical content to convey messages that are deeply moving – emotionally or physically. Her 2nd album shows an artist comfortable in her own skin, confident as a singer/songwriter, sparkling with peer musicians like Kadialy Kouyate on kora, and bearing the voices of women of our times – those who love, those who are impoverished, those who are mothers - as Namvula herself has now become for the first time. This means that a promo tour for ‘Quiet Revolutions’ is on hold till next year until sleep deprivation wears off, but when you hear extracts from Namvula’s marvellous and conscious album, plus her superb unplugged performance in our studio, you might ask yourself if any promo is even necessary. ‘Quiet Revolutions’ is out today – November 10th – on Bandcamp! Find it and more about Namvula at www.namvula.comARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKMartin Alvarado Los Pajaros Perdidos ArgentinaSheila Chandra Lagan Love/Nada Brahma UK/IndiaKarim Sultan/Tse Tse Fly ME City From Memory UAENamvula Moto (Fire) UK/Zambia‘ ‘ Nikali Kuyenda (Night Song) ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Njishe ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Boola Kuli ‘ ‘8/11/17 – AWIL at Res 143 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling. Also this week Martin Alvarado at SOAS Radio: https://soasradio.org/music/episodes/a- ... n-alvarado Next week Mary Ann Kennedy at SOAS & James Galvin at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio

Charismatic music maestro James Patrick Gavin on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/James Gavin and Tad Sargent share much common ground, from Irish roots to Islington’s Holloway Road, and previous appearances on AWIL, but most of all, their outstanding musicianship. It was pure joy to watch James Gavin’s finessed fiddle-playing working in tandem with Tad Sargent’s brilliant bouzouki-guitar in the studio! James has now embarked on his first solo adventure, producing a fantastic CD called Chewing the Fat which is scheduled for release on January 26th. It’s a concept album, centred around the life & times of his grandmother, Philomena, who lives on a remote Irish mountain and has plenty to say. Tracks on Chewing the Fat are equally conversational, taking unexpected twists and turns through weeping violin and furiously fast Irish reels. Our conversation during this AWIL was also unpredictable, covering debates about Folk music from across the British isles to the worrying loss of yet more grassroots music venues in London. ‘Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes’(Gustav Mahler) - make your way over to James Patrick Gavin’s album launch at the Union Chapel on February 5th! jamespatrickgavin.comARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKJames Patrick Gavin First Born UK/Ireland‘ ‘ The Lark in the Clear Air ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Mena’s Teapot ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Standing Stone ‘ ‘15/11/17 – AWIL at Res 144 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling. Also this week Mary Ann Kennedy at SOAS Radio: https://soasradio.org/music/episodes/a- ... nn-kennedy Next week Latchepen at SOAS & Maya Youssef at Resonance! #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio

Mesmerising conjurer of qanun, Maya Youssef on this A World in London! Click: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/You can almost imagine the original advert on a dating app: ‘Qanun, ancient Persian zither seeks 21st century Queen of the heart’. A young girl living in Damascus saw this advert and replied, ‘I will be your heart, your queen, your life-partner, and together we will make beautiful music that will touch the hearts of everyone else’. That girl was Maya Youssef, and thus began a soul-filled romance with her Qanun that has taken the love-struck pair concerting around the world, via seas filled with Syrian Dreams. We first interviewed Maya Youssef in 2012, after she had just moved to London. She was on the brink of new discovery, and her homeland was on the brink of disaster - a lot has happened in the five years since then.. Listen to this AWIL to hear one of our most poignant & moving interviews, plus Maya’s emotive & spellbinding compositions from her critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Syrian Dreams’. See her on stage at The British Museum this weekend for free, November 24th & 25th! www.mayayoussef.comARTIST TRACK COUNTRYJoji Hirota & London Taiko Drummers Hiten Ryu II Japan/UKJames Patrick Gavin London Town UK/IrelandMary Ann Kennedy Gradh Geal Mo Chridhe ScotlandLatchepen Love Letters UK/Iran/FranceMaya Youssef Toota Syria/UK‘ ‘ Bombs Turn Into Roses ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Syrian Dreams ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Queen of the Night ‘ ‘‘ ‘ Hi-Jazz ‘ ‘22/11/17 – AWIL at Res 145 Online: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-wo ... mber-2017/ Production & pics by Sofia Gaetani-Morris, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling & sketches by artist Alban Low. Also this week Latchepen at SOAS Radio: https://soasradio.org/music/episodes/a- ... -latchepen Next week global music at SOAS. #AWorldinLondon – IN ITS ELEVENTH YEAR! Live on Wednesdays 6.30pm Resonance 104.4 www.resonancefm.com & 4pm SOAS Radio mixlr.com/soasradio